Author : Constance Helmericks
Publisher : Epicenter Press (WA)
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,45 MB
Release : 2019-02-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781941890448
Connie and Bud lived a nomadic life with the eskimos during the winter. With Spring, they migrated east with the Eskimo to the Mackenzie River Delta in Canada where they took a flight to Edmonton.
Author : Tracie Peterson
Publisher : Bethany House
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 12,73 MB
Release : 2006-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1441203370
The unforgiving descent of Alaskan winter has Jayce Kincaid and Jacob Barringer struggling for survival after their ship is trapped in the ice floes of the Arctic. Back at Last Chance Creek, Leah and Helaina endure the long separation--Leah wondering if her children will ever know their father and Helaina longing for the chance to express her love to Jacob. When unexpected loss invades their world and tragedy looms once again, will they find the strength to trust in God's faithfulness?
Author : Constance Helmericks
Publisher : Epicenter Press (WA)
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,41 MB
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781941890127
Bud and Connie Helmericks paddled down the Tanana River to the Yukon River in a homemade canoe. During the summer they floated down the Yukon, portaged to the Kuskokwim River and hauled out at Bethel, the last few miles through pack ice.
Author : Jennifer Snow
Publisher : HQN Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 39,63 MB
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0369706285
Is she making the right decision…for her career and her heart? Following a near-death experience, Selena Hudson is finally going after the career she wants. And since casting directors won’t see her as anything but a rom-com queen, Selena signs on to produce and star in her own movie—an edgy psychological thriller. But just as the cast and crew arrive on location in Wild River, Alaska, the leading man drops out of the production. Reporter Gus Orosco is not hiding out in Wild River—he’s waiting for the dust to settle after his on-camera “overreaction” triggered by watching his ex-fiancee get engaged to a superstar hockey player. Gus doesn’t want to be anywhere near the film crew shooting at his family’s campgrounds, but Selena makes him an offer he can’t refuse: she’ll snag Gus an interview with Sports Beat if he’ll be her leading man. All Gus has to do is learn his lines, hit his marks and somehow ignore the sparks flying between them…even though they’re hot enough to melt the Alaskan snow. Bonus Novella Jade Frazier learns that Christmas is the season for second chances—in life as well as love—in Jennifer Snow’s An Alaskan Christmas Homecoming.
Author : Stef Penney
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 38,36 MB
Release : 2008-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1416571302
When her teenage son disappears in the aftermath of a brutal murder, a determined mother sets out from her snow-covered nineteenth-century settlement to find him, an effort that is hampered by vigilante groups and the harrowing forces of nature. A first novel.
Author : Eowyn Ivey
Publisher : Reagan Arthur Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 29,12 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316192953
In this magical debut, a couple's lives are changed forever by the arrival of a little girl, wild and secretive, on their snowy doorstep. Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart -- he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone -- but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees. This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in this beautiful, violent place things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them.
Author : John Straley
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 29,6 MB
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1616953071
An offbeat, often hilarious crime novel set in the sleepy Alaskan town of Cold Storage from the Shamus Award winning author of the Cecil Younger series. Cold Storage, Alaska, is a remote fishing outpost where salmonberries sparkle in the morning frost and where you just might catch a King Salmon if you’re zen enough to wait for it. Settled in 1935 by Norse fishermen who liked to skinny dip in its natural hot springs, the town enjoyed prosperity at the height of the frozen fish boom. But now the cold storage plant is all but abandoned and the town is withering. Clive “The Milkman” McCahon returns to his tiny Alaska hometown after a seven-year jail stint for dealing coke. He has a lot to make up to his younger brother, Miles, who has dutifully been taking care of their ailing mother. But Clive doesn’t realize the trouble he’s bringing home. His vengeful old business partner is hot on his heels, a stick-in-the-mud State Trooper is dying to bust Clive for narcotics, and, to complicate everything, Clive might be going insane—lately, he’s been hearing animals talking to him. Will his arrival in Cold Storage be a breath of fresh air for the sleepy, depopulated town? Or will Clive’s arrival turn the whole place upside down?
Author : Luc Mehl
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 18,9 MB
Release : 2022-01-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1680516035
"A staple for paddlers.... [The Packraft Handbook has] now become the bible for outdoor recreators taking their inflatable rafts into the backcountry." ― Anchorage Daily News 2021 National Outdoor Book Award Winner in Outdoor Adventure Guides 2022 Banff Mountain Book Competition Guidebook Winner Alaska-based author is a leading expert on wilderness travel Emphasis on skill progression and safety applies to wide range of outdoor water recreation Vibrant illustrations and photos inform and inspire The Packraft Handbook is a comprehensive guide to packrafting, with a strong emphasis on skill progression and safety. Readers will learn to maneuver through river features and open water, mitigate risk with trip planning and boat control, and how to react when things go wrong. Beginners will find everything they need to know to get started--from packraft care to proper paddling position as well as what to wear and how to communicate. Illustrated for visual learners and featuring stunning photography, The Packraft Handbook has something to offer all packrafters and other whitewater sports enthusiasts.
Author : Martha Shulski
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 34,47 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1602230072
Examines the climate of Alaska and its diversity through narrative and maps, tables, and charts. Focuses on climatological features such as temperature, humidity, precipitation, and atmospheric pressure.--(Source of description unspecified.)
Author : Jeffrey Raz
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,5 MB
Release : 2022-10
Category :
ISBN : 9780997904840
Love Death Circus is a love letter to the Bay Area circus community that has been the author's artistic home for over four decades. The novel follows Frank Singer, a veteran clown, through a year of death and dying, first a colleague, then his mother, his best friend and a mentor. As exotic as the characters are on-stage, they face the same scary world as everyone else when illness hits their community. Framed by a series of benefit performances, Love Death Circus takes you deep into an idiosyncratic community of artists with an outrageous sense of adventure reminiscent of Carl Hiaasen or Walter Mosley.
